The fusion of dream sequences and evocative landscapes makes the characters' feverish sense of living at the edge of reality contagious.

Kate Winslet, luscious in a brilliantly colored caftan and flushed from the heat of an African sun, makes a beautiful hippie, circa 1972, in Hideous Kinky.

Kate Winslet continues an uninterrupted line of fine performances with the modest yet affecting Hideous Kinky.

Winslet is unsurprisingly astounding in the role, which takes an interesting look at the often-privileged idealism of English people who sought enlightenment in so-called "exotic" places.